Music Sunday is this week. Our service will center on our choir’s 2017 performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and a 2018 Music Sunday piece sung by our Women’s Trio. The Gloria, sung by our 30-voice choir and led by Mary Cunningham, Music Director is a lively and inspiring choral masterpiece with soloists and orchestra. 

This magnificent piece of classical choral literature is as fun to sing as it is to hear and will make for an exciting and moving Sunday worship service. Additional singers and instrumentalists from the congregation and the community join us for this special service and truly inclusive event. 

Antonio Vivaldi has been called the most original and influential Italian composer of his generation. The “Gloria in D,” Vivaldi’s most famous sacred work today, was written presumably for a special concert or worship service. The work calls for an SATB chorus and an orchestra of strings, trumpet, oboe, and basso continuo. The wonderfully sunny nature of the Gloria, with its distinctive melodies and rhythms, is characteristic of all of Vivaldi’s music, giving it an immediate and universal appeal.